This is a list of Academy Award winners and nominees from Russia.
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Best Actor | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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1956 | Yul Brynner | The King and I | Won | Brynner was a Soviet citizen who later became a naturalized US citizen. |
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Best Actor in a Supporting Role | ||||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | ||
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1936 | Mischa Auer | My Man Godfrey | Nominated | First Russian to be nominated for an acting Oscar. | ||
1945 | Michael Chekhov | Spellbound | Nominated | |||
1950 | Sam Jaffe | The Asphalt Jungle | Nominated | Jaffe was an American actor born to Russian Jewish parents. | ||
1951 | Peter Ustinov | Quo Vadis | Nominated | Ustinov was a British actor of Russian decent. | ||
1960 | Spartacus | Won | First Russian to win the Best Supporting Actor Oscar. | |||
1964 | Topkapi | Won | First Russian to win multiple acting Oscars. Only Russian with multiple acting Oscar nominations and wins. | |||
1968 | Gene Wilder | The Producers | Nominated | Wilder was an American actor born to Russian Jewish parents. | ||
1977 | Mikhail Baryshnikov | The Turning Point | Nominated |
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Best Actress | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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1961 | Piper Laurie | The Hustler | Nominated | Laurie is an American actress of Russian & Polish decent. |
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Actress in a Supporting Role | ||||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | ||
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1936 | Maria Ouspenskaya | Dodsworth | Nominated | First Russian actress to be nominated for an Oscar | ||
1939 | Love Affair | Nominated | ||||
1943 | Paulette Goddard | So Proudly We Hail! | Nominated | American actress of Russian-Jewish decent. | ||
1944 | Aline MacMahon | Dragon Seed | Nominated | American actress of Russian-Jewish decent. | ||
1945 | Joan Lorring | The Corn Is Green | Nominated | Hong Kong-born American actress of Russian decent. | ||
1951 | Lee Grant | Detective Story | Nominated | American actress of Russian-Jewish and Polish decent. | ||
1964 | Lila Kedrova | Zorba the Greek | Won | Kedrova was a Russian-born French actress. | ||
1970 | Lee Grant | The Landlord | Nominated | |||
1975 | Shampoo | Won | ||||
1976 | Voyage of the Damned | Nominated | ||||
Piper Laurie | Carrie | Nominated | ||||
1986 | Children of a Lesser God | Nominated | ||||
1996 | Barbara Hershey | The Portrait of a Lady | Nominated | American actress with Russian heritage. |
Best Director
Best Director | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes | |
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1927/1928 | Lewis Milestone | Two Arabian Knights | Won | First Russian to win an Oscar. | |
1929/1930 | All Quiet on the Western Front | Won | First Russian to win multiple Oscars. First director to win Best Director twice. | ||
1930/1931 | The Front Page | Nominated | |||
1949 | Robert Rossen | All the King's Men | Nominated | Rossen was an American filmmaker born to Russian parents. | |
1961 | The Hustler | Nominated |
Best Picture
Best Picture | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Notes | |
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1961 | Robert Rossen | The Hustler | Nominated |
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Original Screenplay
Best Original Screenplay | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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1940 | Ben Hecht | Angels Over Broadway | Nominated | ||
1946 | Notorious | Nominated | |||
1947 | Abraham Polonsky | Body and Soul | Nominated | ||
1949 | Helen Levitt | The Quiet One | Nominated | Shared with Janice Loeb & Sidney Meyers. | |
1955 | Sonya Levien | Interrupted Melody | Won | Shared with William Ludwig. | |
1958 | Paddy Chayefsky | The Goddess | Nominated | ||
1961 | Valentin Yezhov Grigory Chukhray |
Ballad of a Soldier | Nominated | ||
1968 | Peter Ustinov | Hot Millions | Nominated | Shared with Ira Wallach. | |
1971 | Paddy Chayefsky | The Hospital | Won | ||
1976 | Network | Won |
Best Story
Best Story | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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1927-28 | Ben Hecht | Underworld | Won | ||
1935 | The Scoundrel | Won | Shared with Charles MacArthur. | ||
1946 | Victor Trivas | The Stranger | Nominated | ||
Vladimir Solomonovich Pozner | The Dark Mirror | Nominated | |||
1951 | Robert Riskin | Here Comes the Groom | Nominated | Shared with Liam O'Brien. | |
1955 | Henri Troyat | The Sheep Has Five Legs | Nominated | Shared with Jean Marsan, Jacques Perret, Henri Verneuil & Raoul Ploquin. |
Best International Feature Film
Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography
Best Cinematography | |||||
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Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
1953 | Joseph Ruttenberg | Julius Caesar | Nominated | ||
1954 | Boris Kaufman | On the Waterfront | Won | ||
1956 | Baby Doll | Nominated | |||
Joseph Ruttenberg | Somebody Up There Likes Me | Won | |||
1958 | Gigi | Won | |||
1960 | BUtterfield 8 | Nominated |
Best Costume Design
Best Costume Design | |||||
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Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
1973 | Paul Zastupnevich | The Poseidon Adventure | Nominated | ||
1979 | The Swarm | Nominated | |||
1981 | When Time Ran Out | Nominated |
Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Feature | |||||
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Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
1942 | Ilya Kopalin and Leonid Varlamov | Moscow Strikes Back | Won | ||
1942 | Victor Stoloff | Little Isles of Freedom | Nominated | ||
1965 | Sidney Glazier | The Eleanor Roosevelt Story | Won | ||
1986 | Lee Grant | Down and Out in America | Won | ||
2015 | Den Tolmor Evgeny Afineevsky |
Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom | Nominated |
Best Live Action Short Film
Best Live Action Short Film | ||||||
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1952 | Light in the Window[19] | Boris Vermont | Won | |||
1953 | Joy of Life | Nominated |
Best Original Score
Best Original Song
Best Sound
Best Sound | ||||||
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Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | ||
1969 | Hello, Dolly! | Murray Spivack | Won | |||
1970 | Tora! Tora! Tora! | Nominated |
Honorary Award
Honorary Academy Award | ||||||
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Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone / Notes | ||
2009 | Lauren Bacall | Won | First ever person of Russian Origin to win Academy Honorary Award |
Nominations and Winners
No. of wins | No. of nominations |
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39 | 177 |
Notes
- ^ Michael Blankfort was originally nominated as the screenwriter of Broken Arrow. In 1991, research proved blacklisted Albert Maltz was the screenwriter and his credit was restored. Blankfort was removed from the nomination and it was given to Maltz.
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